Jack Stevenson returns to Huntington to launch his new book Scandinavian Bluewith a rare screening of the 1966 Danish film Venom and a couple of short "surprises.Ã¢Venom (deemed by Playboy to be an honest and clear-sighted film, "a jolt of shock therapy") deals with what was then an ultra-topicalissue: pornography, and caused immense controversy. The film tells the entertaining tale of a hedonistic young man who acquires acamera which he uses to cause mischief by filming his friendsÃ¢ intimate moments and showing them to their parents.Jack StevensonÃ¢s new book Scandinavian Blue is a journey to the center of the modern Nordic sexual mythology that flourishedin the postwar years and held movie-goers in its naked embrace through the 70s. From the gentle Swedish naturalist films of the50Ã¢s to controversial groundbreakers like I Am Curious (Yellow) that shattered censorship barriers in the 60Ã¢s, and on through to thedawn of Ã¢Liberated DenmarkÃ¢ in the early 70Ã¢s when the radical new freedoms unleashed by the abolition of censorship turnedCopenhagen into a modern day Sodom and Gomorra, this was a journey from innocence to decadence. Author Jack Stevenson,American expat living in Denmark for almost two decades, reveals how the films of this period created the lore of a mythic place wherelove was free and the beautiful people had it together. So take a trip back to the epicenter of the sexual revolution and get intimate withthe sultry starlets and trend-setting motion pictures that had the whole Western world in heat, movies that sparked high profile courtcases in the US and UK and determined the very course of screen freedom